Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 2 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 3 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 4 | Mimms went for a cross he was never going to reach , Jason Dozzell helped it on to Kiwomya , and the in-form striker calmly lobbed home the winner past the despairing lunge of Nicky Marker . |
| 5 | And I had to my satisfaction traced it back to Jules and Boris [ Yul 's grandfather and father , both of whom deserted their families ] . ’ |
| 6 | I realized what I was doing and decided to have this problem analyzed , and I traced it back to when I was in hospital as a child . |
| 7 | This time he traced it back to the servant in the bedroom — he blocked out or refused to remember her name — a cold witch , he decided , a witch who would find no satiation in this world , maybe even a spirit brought back to test and ruin those who had intercourse with her . |
| 8 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 9 | If he found that the archbishop disliked a nomination , he coolly referred it back to Downing Street . |
| 10 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 11 | She shook her head , moved it closer to the glass , and the image changed . |
| 12 | and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows |
| 13 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 14 | With faltering dexterity one hand clasped the stem of the umbrella , leaving the other free to manipulate the camera from its sheath and he moved it quickly to his eye , which glorified , revelled in such a miraculous extension to itself . |
| 15 | For a time it was held at Bologna , in the papal states , but the imperial representatives protested and the pope moved it back to Trent . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell you what ? ’ he asked as he hastily clamped her hand still and moved it back to his chest . |
| 17 | ‘ I reported it twice to Kilburn police station in London and the Salvation Army but I never saw her again . |
| 18 | SHE MENTIONED IT LATER TO HER FRIEND , WHO SAID SHE HAD NOT SEEN THE PICTURE . |
| 19 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 20 | He invariably believed completely in his own case and pursued it relentlessly to the end . |
| 21 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 22 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 23 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 24 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 25 | He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor . |
| 26 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied and dropped it on to the couchette . |
| 27 | He reached out and drew the object from Susan 's ear , then dropped it on to her plate . |
| 28 | He dropped it on to the desk in front of Scott who picked it up , studying the outlines of Paula Wilson 's face . |
| 29 | Hooking the shirt off over his dripping head , he dropped it on to the pile . |
| 30 | nanny 's down the road , but Carl was in this morning so I dropped it off to him it 's gon na be a long time |